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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Reunion of the Virginia division Army of Northern Virginia Association. (search)
a litter to remove a private in the ranks, whom he had known at school. No, said the wounded man, let me alone, Ratchford, I am mortally wounded. Carry off some one who will live to fight for his country another day. Then waving off his comrade with a feeble effort of his poor, dying hand, he said, Good-bye, Ratchford, while the white lips parted in a farewell smile. The world has wondered at and has praised for two hundred and ninety-nine years the grand self-denial of the dying Sir Philip Sidney, who gave the cup of water intended for himself to the wounded soldier that was looking longingly at it and said, Friend, thy wants are greater than mine. The world has done well to preserve this sublime instance of unselfishness, but it was an unselfishness born of sympathy with present suffering appealing to him. The unselfishness of the Confederate was born of an abstract love of country looking away from the present to the future weal of our dear Southland. Who does not see that